Gray Lady and the Birds: Stories of the Bird Year for Home and School
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1914. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 552 Gray lady and the bir...
Chapters (554)(click to expand)
- BE SURE THAT YOU SEE ARIGHT!
- RECOGNITION
- TO THE GROWN-UP—LEND A HAND!
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- I GRAY LADY APPEARS
- II A RAINY DAY
- III GRAY LADY AT SCHOOL
- The Bird
- A LITTLE MINISTER
- The Bird Year and the Migration
- THE FLIGHT OF THE BIRDS
- The Fall Migration
- The Moulting
- IV THE ORCHARD PARTY
- V REASONS WHY
- THE USES OF BIRDS
- WARNING! WHAT THE LAW OF YOUR STATE SAYS ABOUT SONG-BIRDS
- CRUELTY TO WILD ANIMALS
- HOW WE CAN PROTECT BIRDS
- HOUSING AND FEEDING
- A SUGGESTION FOR THE LUNCH-COUNTER
- AN ADIRONDACK LUNCH-COUNTER
- MATILDA ANN
- VI FEATHERS AND HATS
- The White Heron
- The Ostrich
- VII THE KIND HEARTS’ CLUB
- VIII THE PROCESSION PASSES
- THE SWALLOWS
- IX TWO BIRDS THAT CAME BACK
- ENGLISH STARLING
- X SOME MISCHIEF-MAKERS
- THE CROW
- The Blue Jay
- O JAY!
- THE WISE OLD CROW
- XI THE FLIGHT OF THE BIRD
- The Travels of Birds
- Causes of the Migrations
- How do Birds find their Way?
- Accidents during Migration
- Distance of Migration
- Routes of Migration
- The Bobolink Route
- The Unknown
- XII SOME SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS
- Owls and Hawks
- THE SCREECH OWL’S VALENTINE
- THE EARLY OWL
- THREE USEFUL HAWKS
- XIII TREE-TRUNK BIRDS
- TO A NUTHATCH
- THE LITTLE BROWN CREEPER
- THE SAPSUCKER
- MR. FLICKER WRITES A LETTER
- XIV FOUR NOTABLES
- BOB-WHITE
- PARTRIDGES (Ruffed Grouse)
- THE RUFFED GROUSE
- THE WOODCOCK’S WOOING
- XV GAME-BIRDS?
- The Mourning Dove
- THE SANDPIPER
- THE O’LINCOLN FAMILY
- XVI TREASURE-TROVE AT THE SHORE
- The Herring or Harbour Gull
- XVII THE BIRDS’ CHRISTMAS TREE
- XVIII HOW THEY SPENT THEIR MONEY
- XIX BEHIND THE BARS
- Mockingbird, Cardinal, Indigo-bird, and Nonpareil
- The Mockingbird
- The Cardinal
- The Indigo-bird
- Painted Bunting or Nonpareil
- THE CARDINAL AT THE HUB
- IN CAPTIVITY
- XX MIDWINTER BIRDS
- WINTER COMRADES
- THE SNOWBIRD
- ON HEARING A WINTER WREN SING IN WINTER
- THE CHICKADEE
- BIRD SONGS OF MEMORY
- XXI JACOB HUGHES’ OPINION OF CATS
- XXII FEBRUARY, “THE LONG-SHORT MONTH”
- Bluebird, Song Sparrow, Robin
- BLUEBIRDS’ GREETING
- THE SONG SPARROW
- THE SONG SPARROW
- ROBIN REJOICE
- ROBIN’S MATE
- XXIII MARCH
- Red-wings and Pussy-willows MARCH
- THE KINGFISHER
- XXIV THE TIDE HAS TURNED
- THE MASQUERADING CHICKADEE
- WILD GEESE
- Nest-Building
- THE NEST
- OUT OF THE SOUTH
- WHAT TO EXPECT
- THE VESPER-SPARROW
- WINGED MYSTERIES
- THE WOOD THRUSH AND THE WHIP-POOR-WILL
- A NIGHTHAWK INCIDENT
- TO A CHIMNEY SWIFT
- THE RUBY-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD
- THE HUMMING-BIRD
- THE WOOD THRUSH
- MOCKERS AND THRUSHES
- THE INCREDULOUS VEERY
- THE BROWN THRASHER
- THE CATBIRD
- XXV BIRD AND ARBOUR DAY AT FOXES CORNERS
- BIRDS IN SPRING
- THE BIRDS AND I
- THE BIRDS AND THE TREES
- THE BIRDS AND THE HOURS
- XXVI SOME BIRDS THAT COME IN MAY
- RED-EYED VIREO
- THREE LISPERS AND A VENTRILOQUIST
- The Summer Yellowbird
- Maryland Yellowthroat
- THE MARYLAND YELLOWTHROAT
- Singers in Costume
- THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE
- THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE
- A GOLDFINCH IDYL
- A TALKING ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK.
- A SONG OF THE ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK
- XXVII FLAG DAY
- HYMN OF THE FLAG
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